| Colden Family Cemetery | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Town of Montgomery, NY |
| Nearest city: | Newburgh |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1780s |
| Added to NRHP: | 2005 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 05000017 |
| Governing body: | Town of Montgomery |
The Colden Family Cemetery is a Registered Historic Place in the Town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of There is also a Montgomery County in New York Montgomery is a Town in Orange County, New York, United States New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of There is also a Montgomery County in New York Montgomery is a Town in Orange County, New York, United States Orange County is a County located in the US state of New York. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous It is located off Maple Avenue south of NY 17K, surrounded by a small stone wall. New York State Route 17K is a state highway in southern New York, entirely within Orange County.
It was established in the 1780s by the descendants of area resident Cadwallader Colden, one of the last colonial governors of New York. Cadwallader Colden ( February 7, 1688 &ndash September 20, 1776) was a Physician, Farmer, surveyor, The ruins of the family home are at the junction of 17K and NY 747, approximately a mile (1. The Colden Mansion Ruins are located in the Town of Montgomery, New York, USA, along NY 17K, at the intersection of Stone Castle Road and Route New York State Route 747 is a State highway in northeast Orange County New York, United States. 6 km) to the northeast. While Colden himself is buried another private cemetery in the Queens community of Flushing where he died, a tablet was erected in his memory at the entrance. Flushing, founded in 1645 is a neighborhood in the north central part of the City of New York borough of Queens, ten miles (16 km east of Manhattan Many of his progeny are here, along with some of the family's slaves and members of other families. Slavery in the United States began soon after English colonists first settled Virginia in 1607 and lasted until the passage of the Thirteenth The earliest grave is that of his last wife Elizabeth, who died in 1782. The most recent grave is that of Anna Colden Harris, who died in 1937. The cemetery was added to the Register in 2005.